Building wall



July 12, 1949.. F R JAQKSQN 2,476,096

BUILDING WALL Filed March 5, 1947 Irv/@nm Fstr Rhodes Jczcksn QS wwmwww Att-fs Patented July 12, 1949 UNITEDv STATES OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to wall structure for houses, garages, and other buildings of that class. It is an object of the invention to provide a wall structure which can readily be made up in portable sections to be assembled at the building site. It is a further object of the invention to provide a wall structure characterized by simplicity, strength, economy of material, and a pleasing, novel appearance.

According to the invention, the customary framing in wall structure of wooden buildings is eliminated, the novel wall being composed of boards secured together edge to edge in zig-zag fashion. That is, a side edge of each board abuts a marginal portion of a face of the next board. The resulting appearance is suggestive of an accordion bellows. Sections of a Wall structure of this type can be conveniently constructed in a prone position together with corresponding portions of a sill and plate. This can be done at the building site or at a central manufacturing location. Such sections can be quickly and easily erected and secured together to form the wall of the building.

For a more complete understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following description thereof, and to the drawing, of which:

Figure l is a perspective view of a house having a wall structure embodying the invention;

Figure 2 is an elevational view of a portion of the wall shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a section on a horizontal plane showing one form of corner structure;

Figure 6 is a section on a horizontal plane showing another form of corner structure.

Buildings such as the one illustrated in Figure 1 may be constructed by means of wall structures embodying the invention without the use of any of the customary vertical framing, thus effecting a considerable saving in time and materials. To this end a series of boards Ill are secured together edge to edge in zig-zag arrangement as indicated in Figure 4, each board being at right angles to the contiguous boards. Any convenient number of boards may be thus assembled and secured together in a prone position on the ground where they are easily accessible. To one end of these boards a sill member l2 is secured by suitable means such as nails which are preferably driven through the sill member into the ends of the boards at points at or near the median of each board. The sill member i2 is preferably bevelled so that its upper surface lli slopes outward and downward when its bottom surface is horizontal, the boards It being arranged perpendicular to the bottom face of the sill member I2. The boards I0 may extend up to a top plate member I6 or, as shown in Figure 3, to an intermediate plate member 20 which is preferably sloped outward and downward similarly to the top surface I4 of the sill member l2. When an intermediate plate member 2G is employed, a second or upper series of boards 22 are assembled in zig-Zag formation, one end of these boards being secured to the upper face of the intermediate plate member 2t, the other end of these boards being secured to the top plate I6. The zig-zag formations in the portion of the wall above the intermediate plate member 2t are preferably in opposite phase to the formation of the boards below this member, this giving a pleasing appearance as indicated in Figure 1 and also serving to some extent to stiften the wall as a whole. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, some of the zig-Zag boards may -be omitted where desired for the insertion of a frame 24 for windows or for a door frame.

The individual wall sections may be made in any desired or convenient sizes for transportation and handling. At the building site they are erected on a suitable foundation 4D, the end boards of each section being nailed or otherwise fastened to the end boards of the next sections, and the sill and plate members being secured to corresponding members of the next sections until the wall, sill and plate or plates are complete. Any desired kind of roof 42 can then be constructed or installed on the wall to complete the external structure of the building.

The corner structures of the wall may be as indicated in Figure 5 or in Figure 6. Figure 5 shows a single corner board 26 which serves as the common end board of the two wall sections forming the corner. The corner structure in Figure 6 comprises a diagonal board 28 of double width, a corner board 30 being secured to the face thereof to project from the median of the board 28 so as to stiffen the same and to finish the exterior appearance of the building.

By securing the sill members and plate members to the individual boards at or near the median lines of the board the development of cracks in the wall is prevented. In case of swelling or shrinking of the boards constituting the wall, the entire wall can readily expand or contract in the 1. A building Wall construction comprising a sill member, an intermediate plate member, a

top plate member, a series of boards each having one end secured against a face of the sill member and the other end secured against a face of the intermediate plate member, said boards being fastened edge to edge in zig-zag formation, and an upper series of boards each having an end secured against the other face of the intermediate plate member and the other end secured against a face of the top plate member, said upper boards being fastened together edge to edge in zig-zag formation.

2. A building wall construction as described in claim 1, wherein the zig-zag formations below and above the intermediate plate are in opposite phase.

FOSTER RHODES JACKSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following referenlces are of record in the flle of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS n Number Name Date 2,426,943 Morden Sept. 2, 194'? FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date `50,107 Sweden 1918 

